books about: trying

books about: trying

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Trying

Trying Again: A Guide to Pregnancy After Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Infant Loss

Ann Douglas

Taylor Trade Publishing, 2000

This book was written for me.
This is a wonderful book. I purchased it after the stillbirth of my first baby boy. It gave me the confidence to not try again but at least to start thinking about it. Thankfully we did and we have a beautiful 18 month old girl now. I felt like this book was written ...

Die Trying (Jack Reacher)

Lee Child

Jove, 2006

Another Reacher classic
Lee Child has taken reacher into another situation not of his own making. H estumbles into a kidnap by accident. Jack Reacher is in both the wrong and the right place at the same time when FBI Special Agent and daughter of the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Holly ...

If You're Trying to Teach Kids How to Write, You'Ve Gotta Have This Book (Ip, 62-5)

Marjorie Frank

Incentive Publications, 1995

excellent resource for upper-elementary writing teachers
This book provides numerous ideas and suggestions for creative and purposeful writing activities for upper elementary level students. The activities are easy to intergrate in a busy classroom, can be adapted for different grade and ability levels, and the kids love ...

Go Green, Live Rich: 50 Simple Ways to Save the Earth and Get Rich Trying

David Bach, Hillary Rosner

Broadway, 2008

Successful in audiobook format
In an entertaining way, David Bach gets listeners thinking green and making choices that are good for their wallets and the planet. While everyone knows about hybrid cars, most people don't realize that your home contributes more greenhouse gases, and Bach will show ...

Walden Two

B. F. Skinner

Hackett Pub Co Inc, 2005

Skinner at his best
The book "Walden Two" by B.F.Skinner is excellent. It is written in a story form so most of us will not get lost with the psychology jargon, and the story is very interesting and moves right along.For those of you not familiar with his work Skinner explains what ...

The Big Moo: Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable

The Group of 33

Portfolio Hardcover, 2005

Moo-licious
The Big Moo feels like a collection of blog posts from several thinkers that have gained Godin's attention, a merit which speaks for itself. I love the idea of forming books around small, cohesive articles based on a theme; I wish there were more of these. This one's ...

The Mother of All Pregnancy Books: The Ultimate Guide to Conception, Birth, and Everything In Between (U.S. ...

Ann Douglas

Wiley, 2002

It really is the mother of all pregrancy books
After reading several other pregnancy books, although reading over the same topics, Ann Douglas provides more helpful information. Her writing style is easy to read, funny at times and not biased. You feel as if you are listening to a friend sometimes. This book covers ...

The Position Sex Bible: More Positions Than You Could Possibly Imagine Trying

Randi Foxx

Quiver, 2008

Another good one.
Granted, there are a lot of positions in this book, however, I wouldn't mind trying them all, if I had the time! This is a definite add to any collection of sex manuals, along with Sex, Your Woman and You: How to Sexually Please Your Woman in the Bedroom and Beyond.

The Massacre at El Mozote

Mark Danner

Vintage, 1994

A lesson for our times
Mark Danner's short book, The Massacre at El Mozote, is an extremely powerful depiction of not only what can go wrong with US foreign policy, but of the lengths politicians will go through to convince us that what they are doing is, in fact, right. The thoroughness and ...

Chemistry: An Introduction to General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry with The Chemistry Place CD-ROM (9th ...

Karen C. Timberlake

Prentice Hall, 2005

Chemistry: An Introduction to General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry with The Chemistry Place CD-ROM (9th Edition)
Great textbook. Very clear and thorough. Since I am having to teach myself this Chemistry course this semester, I am greatful that I at least have a good book to work with.

What Your Explosive Child Is Trying to Tell You: Discovering the Pathway from Symptoms to Solutions
Douglas A. Riley

Houghton Mifflin, 2008

From the author of The Defiant Child comes the first book to connect From the author of the groundbreaking The Defiant Child comes the first book to connect explosive behavior—when kids go from Jekyll to Hyde and back in the blink of an eye—with its underlying causes Does your hitting, kicking, screaming child explode with so little ...

Biography of a Runaway Slave

Miguel Barnet

Curbstone Press, 1995

REVIEW QUOTES
"...a powerful account of a vanished world...invaluable." --Newsweek "An extraordinary record of a bygone era...Montejo reveals an appealing personality as he talks of women, religion, and politics. His descriptions of the activities and treatment of slaves on the ...

I Can't Accept Not Trying: Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence

Michael Jordan, Mark Vancil

Harper San Francisco, 1994

Buy a few for the special folks in your life
I just grabbed this book for my 18 yr old son who is off to college. I didn't even read it, just knew he would browse it cause MJ wrote. Before I sent it off, I read it and WOW. Only 30 something pages and powerful. No nothing new, just straigt talk. I'm looking for ...

Lee Child CD Collection: Killing Floor, Die Trying, Tripwire (Jack Reacher) (Jack Reacher)

Lee Child

Brilliance Audio on CD, 2005

Lee Child CD Collection1.
I first met Jack Reacher listening to the audio version of Lee Child's "Hard Way" and immediately wanted to read or hear more of his books, based on this character. I readily ordered the Lee Child CD Collection 1, happy to learn that such collections existed. As soon ...

Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

John Irving

Ballantine Books, 1997

LOVE John Irving
I have nothing bad to say about anything that John Irving has written, and this is no exception. His short stories and memoirs are as intriguing and captivating as his novels and I enjoyed every minute of this compilation